Device for preventing spreading of rails.



e. L. movoy; DEVIGE FOR PREVENTING 'SPBEADING 0F RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 14, 1907.

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CHARLES L. MCVOY, OF PENSACQI/l, FLORIDA.

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I Specification of Letterh Patent.

I atented Sept. 22, 1908.

Application filed December 14, 1907. Serial No. 406,464.

Improvements in Devices for Preventing Spreading of Rails, of which the following is his invention relates to devices for splicing the meeting ends of railway rails and preventingthe spreading of the rails, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which is extremely simple in construction and which accomplishes the objects for which it is intended efiectively and with certainty.

To these ends the invention resides in the novel construction of devices hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figural is a cross sectional view of a pair of rails provided with my im rovement. Fig. 2 is a perspective view 0 the spreader and couphng device, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the rail chairs. i

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 1 designates an ordinary rail tie supporting a pair of railway rails 2.

The device employed in carrying out my invention comprises an intermediate bar 3 and a pair of rail chairs 4;- connecting thetie bar.

The rail chairs 4 comprise a body portion 5 provided upon one of its ends with an inclined upwardly extending head 5, of a length equaling the width'oi the rail chair,

and at its opposite ends with an inwardly inclined portion 6 provided with a vertical Wall 7 having a series of perforations 8 for the reception of retaining elements by which the chair is secured to a rail. The inclined portionof the rail chair 6 and the vertical wall 7' are of a shape coinciding with the base of the rail which they are adapted to engage.

The tie bar 3 of my device, comprises a body portion 9 of a width approximately e ualing that of the rail tie 1, and is pro-- vided with a series of perforations 10 adapted for the reception of screw bolts 11, or other suitable retaining devices by which the bar is secured upon the rail tie. Upon each of its ends the tie bar 9 is provided with an enlarged portion 12 terminating-in a vertical wall 13 having openin s or perforations 14 for the reception of bo ts 15 b which it is secured upon the web of the rai opposite the vertical wall 7 of the rail chair.

position, the inclined slot 16 enga tie bar, and t The inner face of the vertical wall 13v ofthe tie-bar is of a width cqualin that of the web of a rail, and the lower e ge of the enlargement 12-of the tie bar is cut away to form asset for the base of the rail,.and is further providedwith a laterally extending inclined roove 16 co incidin with the cross s'ectiona shape of the incline head'5 of the rail chair, with which it is adapted to engage.

In assembling my; device the rail chair 4. is first placed upon t e tie 1, the Webs of'the meeting ends of rails adapted to be secured together and prevented from spreading, have their outer faces. bearing against the vertical wall 7, and the base of the rails lyin upon'the' rail chair and beneath the incline walls 6 of.

the chair. The tie bar 3 is now brought intof the inclined enlargement 5 of the c aria-and the vertical wall 13 of the tie abutting against the webs of the rails o posits those engaged b the vertical wall 7 o the chair. The webs o the rails, it will be understood are provided" with suitable openings, coinciding with the.

openings 8 of the rail chair and theopenings- 14 of the tie bar, and the bolts 15ers adapted to be inserted within these openings and to be retained in position by suitable nuts 19, thus securin the tie bar, the meeting ends of the rails an the rail chair together; The re taining elements 11- are inserted within the openings 10 position u on the rail tie.

,While have thus far described my improvement particularly as a means for corn necting the meeting ends of rails and preventin their spreading, it will be understood that the device may be positioned at any desired point upon a railroad track to prevent spreading of the adjacent rails.

rovided upon the body of the, is element securely retained in From the above description it will be noted that I have provided a cheap and efficient means for securing the meeting ends of railway rails, which prevents the spreadin ofthe rails, which is easily applied to a rail tie' and which'can be readily disconnected and removed when desired;

Havin thus fully, described the invention what is c aimed as new is:

1. A. pair of rail chairs, each having a face portion adapted to be positioned adjacent the outer webs of the rail and to engage the under surface of the head ofthe rail, an overlying bevel flange engaging portion and a body portion beneath the base flange of the rail provided with a head, and a tie her having each end provided with it face ortion adapted to be positioned ndjneel'rt the inner Web of the rail and to engage the under face of the head of the nil and having its body provided with channels adapted to engnge the-heads of the chairs, and .inenns for securing the tie hm, rails and rail chairs toget-l'ter.

2 The combination with the meeting ends of railway mils and a rail tie, of a rail ehnir having a vertical feet: engaging the outer Wel) poltionol the rails, and provided with :1 body pnrtinn adapted to unde "lie the base of the rail and having an inclined upwardly prem-ting head at, its: end, and :1 tie hnr .hnving UHARHCS It. \leYUY. Witnesses:

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